"check_rbl" - Check SMTP black- or white- listing status
Contents
Acknowledgments
Elan Ruusamäe for the improved parallel support and several fixes
Victor V Kudlak for parallel support
Jan Kantert for whitelistings support
perl v5.38.2 2024-07-02 CHECK_RBL(7)
Bugs And Limitations
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at
https://github.com/matteocorti/check_rbl/issues
Configuration
Options can be specified in an ini file. See https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html
Dependencies
check_updates depends on
• Capture::Tiny
• Data::Validate::Domain
• Data::Validate::IP
• Getopt::Long
• IO::Select
• Monitoring::Plugin
• Monitoring::Plugin::Threshold
• Net::DNS
• Readonly
Description
check_rbl is a Nagios plugin to check SMTP black- or white- listing status
Diagnostics
You can specify multiple --verbose options to increase the program verbosity. --debug can be used to
display the process and internals of the querying mechanism.
Disclaimer Of Warranty
BECAUSE THIS SOFTWARE IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE SOFTWARE, TO THE EXTENT
PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER
PARTIES PROVIDE THE SOFTWARE "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED,
INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE
SOFTWARE PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION.
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TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF
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WITH ANY OTHER SOFTWARE), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES.
Example
check_rbl -t 30 -H matteocorti.ch -s zen.spamhaus.org -s bl.spamcop.net
Exit Status
0 if OK, 1 in case of a warning, 2 in case of a critical status and 3 in case of an unknown problem
Incompatibilities
None reported.
License And Copyright
Copyright (c) 2009-2022 Matteo Corti <matteo@corti.li>
Copyright (c) 2009 ETH Zurich.
Copyright (c) 2010 Elan Ruusamae <glen@delfi.ee>.
Copyright (c) 2022 Claudio Kuenzler <ck@claudiokuenzler.com>.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GNU general
public license (gpl) version 3. See the LICENSE file for details.
Name
"check_rbl" - Check SMTP black- or white- listing status
Options
-?, --usage
Print usage information
-h, --help
Print detailed help screen
-V, --version
Print version information
--extra-opts=[section][@file]
Read options from an ini file. See https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/extra-opts.html
for usage and examples.
-c, --critical=INTEGER
Number of blacklisting servers for a critical warning
-w, --warning=INTEGER
Number of blacklisting servers for a warning
-d, --debug
Prints debugging information
-U, --url=STRING
URL to check. Will be ignored if host is set.
-r, --retry=INTEGER
Number of times to try a DNS query (default is 4)
--workers=INTEGER
Number of parallel checks
--whitelistings, --wl
Check whitelistings instead of blacklistings
--query-timeout=INTEGER
Timeout of the RBL queries
-a, --append=STRING
Append string at the end of the plugin output
-n, --nameserver=STRING
Use this nameserver IP as DNS resolver (only one server is supported)
-t, --timeout=INTEGER
Seconds before plugin times out (default: 15)
-v, --verbose
Show details for command-line debugging (can repeat up to 3 times)
Required Arguments
-H, --host=STRING SMTP server to check. If hostname is given, it will be resolved to its IP first.
-s, --server=STRING RBL server (may be repeated)
See Also
Nagios documentation
Synopsis
check_rbl -H hostname --server servername [options]
Version
Version 1.7.0
